Under cabinets and kickboards
Water travels under a run of units and stays there. The kickboard comes off so air and readings can get underneath, and the cabinet bases are assessed rather than written off on sight.
Appliance Leak Water Damage Cleanup
A dishwasher, a washing machine hose, a refrigerator water line or a water heater tank can let go quietly and keep going for hours. Frisco Water Damage Repair deals with the floor, the cabinets and the walls that drank it up.
- 24/7 Emergency Response
- Upfront Quotes
- Drying & Repairs
Signs That Need Attention
- A puddle spreading out from under a dishwasher, fridge or washer
- Wood or laminate flooring lifting, cupping or darkening near an appliance
- A cabinet kickboard that has swollen, gone dark or crumbled at the bottom
- Water sitting in the drip pan under a water heater, or rust around the base of the tank
- A washing machine hose that bulges, feels stiff or is damp at the fitting
- A smell in the laundry room or kitchen that will not go away
Appliance leaks are the quiet ones. A supply line weeps behind a cabinet or a tank seeps into a closet, and nobody sees anything until the flooring starts to move. In a slab home the water has nowhere to drop to, so it spreads sideways under units and flooring first.
What the Service Includes
Fixing or replacing the appliance is a separate job, and a separate bill. Frisco Water Damage Repair takes care of the building side of it and works around whoever is dealing with the machine.
Flooring and the layer beneath it
Plank and tile floors can look fine while water sits on the slab or the subfloor below them. Readings are taken through the floor and at the edges before anything is pulled up.
Walls behind the appliance
Drywall wicks water upward from the floor, so the damp line is usually higher than the puddle was. The bottom of the wall and any insulation in it are checked and dried, not guessed at.
Your Options
While you are waiting, the useful thing is to stop the supply. Dishwashers, fridges and washers each have their own valve close by, and the shutoff for the house is normally at the meter box near the curb. Do not stand in water to reach a plug or a breaker panel, and if a water heater is the source, only turn off its power or gas if you can do that safely and easily.
Once the water is off, the work runs through water extraction and then structural drying. A failed supply line behaves much like the damage covered under burst pipe cleanup, and whether wet flooring and cabinets are dried or taken out is set out in the restore versus replace guide. If the leak has clearly been running a while, read signs of hidden water damage. Older kitchens and laundry rooms in the towns southwest of us are covered on our Lewisville water damage page, and you can request a visit at any hour.
Appliance Leak Questions
How quickly does a dishwasher leak damage a floor?
Faster than most people expect. A slow leak under a dishwasher can have the cabinet base and the floor edge wet within a day or two, and warm materials that stay damp can start growing mold in about the same window. That is why it is worth calling while the puddle is still small rather than waiting to see whether it dries out by itself.
Do wet kitchen cabinets always have to be replaced?
No. A lot depends on what they are made of and how long they were wet. Plywood boxes dried early often stay, while particleboard that has swollen and gone soft does not come back. Frisco Water Damage Repair opens up the kickboard, dries underneath and takes readings before anyone talks about replacing a run of units.
My water heater is leaking. What should I do first?
Shut off the cold water valve on top of the tank if you can reach it without standing in water, and cut its power at the breaker or close its gas valve only if that is easy and safe to do. Then keep people away from it, because the water in the tank is hot. Call Frisco Water Damage Repair and a plumber. Ours is the wet floor, the wall and the closet; theirs is the tank.
Will insurance cover an appliance leak?
It depends on the policy and on how the leak happened, and nobody can promise you an answer up front. Sudden failures are treated differently from a leak that has been seeping for months, so the record matters. Frisco Water Damage Repair photographs the damage, logs the moisture readings and lists what was removed, and insurance claim basics explains what to keep for your own file.
Get water damage handled in Frisco
Tell us what is wet and whether the water has stopped, and we will plan the call around it.